LONDON -- Can you help make Stephen ... should be computer literate, ready to travel, and able to repair electronic devices "with no instruction manual or technical support." Hawking has long ...

When Stephen Hawking's computer voice was in danger of disappearing ... neurological disease took away his own ability to talk. Hawking used to joke about getting stuck with an American accent.

David Mason, of Cambridge Adaptive Communication assembled the first computer that could ... for those who are unable to talk or write. In the near future, such systems may seem horribly primitive, ...

(CBS News) - A new device may give physicist Stephen Hawking the ability to talk just by thinking about ... consistent and repeatable pattern that a computer can translate into, say, a word ...

Ed Bradley: But Hawking turned to computer technology ... Both are reluctant to talk about their private life, but Hawking does say this. Stephen Hawking: (Through voice synthesizer) Like everyone ...

Earlier this week, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking out-snarked the ... Gehrig's disease and has communicated through a computer since 1985. "Who is talking to me right now?" ...

If you are listening Stephen, then Happy Birthday from all of us here today.' Professor Hawking, who suffers with Motor Neurone disease, currently uses his computer to speak by twitching a muscle ...

British physicist Stephen Hawking delved ... into the next millennium,” Hawking, who has been coping with neurodegenerative disease for decades, said in his computer-synthesized voice.